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To curb the menace of drunken driving, Hyderabad traffic police charged 113 people with drinking and driving. Police seized 54 cars and 59 bikes during a checking drive. The checking drive was conducted on the intervening night of 25-26 November by Hyderabad traffic police at various places in the city. During the checking traffic police booked 113 persons for ...

A farmer who was under a debt of Rs. 27 lakh died after allegedly consuming poison on November 11, the Nashik police said today. Vithal Lahanu Jadhav, 38, had taken loans of Rs. 27 lakh from various credit societies for his grape orchard and was unable to repay them, Nashik Rural police official said. Mr Jadhav was admitted to a local hospital after his ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today unveiled a 70-feet tall statue of Lord Buddha at Rajgir in Nalanda district. Mr Kumar unveiled the statue of Lord Buddha, the second tallest statue of Buddha in the country, in the presence of Mahabodhi temple’s chief monk Bhante Chalinda amid the chanting of hymns, an official release said. The statue has been installed ...

Two days before Madhya Pradesh goes to polls, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched an all out attack on the Congress party and said that it is the Congress, which is responsible for the “destruction” of the state and is now maligning him because he “developed the state.” Mr Chouhan addressed as many as six election in the state on ...

The ruling BJP demanded an apology from Congress leader and Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday for his alleged offensive remark against the woman mayor of Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Women workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a silent protest in front of the statue of Devi Ahilya near the Rajwada Palace in Indore. At a recent ...

NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission is all set to give way to the Higher Education Commission of India (Repeal of University Grants Commission Act) Act 2018, which the government is branding as the “end of inspection raj.” The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) has uploaded the draft of the Act, which provides for establishing the HECI by repealing the UGC Act, ...